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A Covert Case Study of Bouncers in the Manchester Night-Time Economy 6 A COVERT CASE STUDY OF BOUNCERS IN THE MANCHESTER NIGHT-TIME ECONOMY 6.1 Manchester as a case study: my biographical and experiential backyard 124 6.2 Covert passing in a demonized subculture: body capital and interaction rituals 126 6.3 The door order and door code: folklore, stories, trust, fictive kinship, masculinity, dirty work and private policing 129 6.4 Managing situated ‘ethical moments’ on the door 138 6.5 An optic on violence 142 6.6 Emotionality, embodiment and risk-taking in ethnography 145 6.7 Conclusions: the post-fieldwork self in a study that never quite finishes 147 6.8 Learning exercise 149 07_Calvey_Ch_06.indd 123 2/28/2017 10:53:56 AM Covert research This chapter focuses on a covert retrospective participant observation case study of bouncers in the night-time economy of Manchester in the United Kingdom. I will discuss my case study, comparing it to the work of other researchers who have explored this specific area, as well as others who might echo my research journey. 6.1 Manchester as a case study: my biographical and experiential backyard The location of Manchester, the UK, for the case study, which is where I live and work, is highly strategic. The city is saturated in popular culture, being named Gunchester, Gangchester and Madchester in the past, and has been well documented by a range of popular journalists and commentators (Haslam, 1999; Swanton, 1997, 1998; Walsh, 2005; Wilson, 2002). The development of club cul- tures in Manchester has been specifically linked to urban regeneration (Lovatt, 1996). Namely, Manchester was promoted as a chic, vibrant, hedonistic and cos- mopolitan place to come to ‘party’. Doing the doors in Manchester, despite the sentimentality and sensationalism in some of these accounts, was a challenging research adventure, not least as I had been studying, working and clubbing in the city since 1984. As I walked to the venue on the first night of my covert research as a fake bouncer, I was nervously filled with both apprehension and anticipation. Would I be found out within hours? Should I just not turn up? Could I pull it off? Could I sustain the deception? Was this too extreme? Six months later, at the end of the fieldwork, after covertly passing at various venues, I had been accepted by the bouncers of the famous Hacienda nightclub as being in ‘the firm’, which is when I chose to finish the study. The Hacienda became an icon for clubbers; it was the pinnacle of the pecking order for doors. It has been the focus of attention for various journalists, academics and film- makers over the years and was the subject of the popular film 24 hour Party People (2006). The acceptance of me by the Hacienda door team, the highest status nightclub in Manchester, was like a ‘covert nirvana’. I had convinced them that I was ‘one of them’, had secured job offers from them, been vetted by them by doing fairground security work for them and then finished the study. Manchester had become somewhat of a mecca, and still is, for hedonistic night-life, and thus was a very rich case study to explore. Hutton sums up the situation: ‘The right ingredients appeared to have come together just at the right time’ (2006: 3). It is in this context that I was ‘badged up’, to use the local argot, by completing my Door Safe short course in December 1995, which was jointly run by Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Police. After this, I spent six months from January to June in 1996 doing a range of different doors 124 07_Calvey_Ch_06.indd 124 2/28/2017 10:53:57 AM A covert case study of bouncers in the night-time economy in Manchester city centre covertly. I did not need to arrange gate-keeping access, retrospective debriefing or follow-up interviewing in any part of the study. This was a purist type of covert research. As well as working on ten different doors, pubs and clubs, in my brief door career, I also actively hung around several other doors, in bouncer mode, through- out the six-month period of my nomadic ethnography, although I was not working these doors. This was artful and, at times, nerve-wrecking in terms of my cover being blown. A sort of ‘hanging out and hanging about’, as Kath Woodward (2008) usefully did in her overt ethnography of boxing gyms. I kept mental notes and wrote up my field notes as I went along, aided by a hidden micro tape recorder taped inside my jacket for recording relevant conver- sations. This technology greatly intensified my fear of being caught. Afterall, the discovery of this was clear and unequivocal evidence of doing undercover work. The ethnographic push was always to capture naturally occurring data as best I could in the setting. This nomadic strategy of working on different doors served a dual purpose. First, it was part of my practical risk management, in terms of dispersing the risk of being found out – a classic ‘getting to know them without them getting to know me’ tactic. Second, it was a way of capturing comparative observational data about different doors and the ordering of their hierarchy. Therefore, I would engineer appropriate exits around wages and hours as I manoeuvred around. It was not uncommon for doormen to have floating roles with various doors, although most wanted a more permanent and settled place in the same venue for as long as possible. I would also sometimes socialize with the bouncers I was working with by having a few drinks after our door shift had finished at other venues, typically with free entry. Again, it was an important source of data as well as being useful in terms of networking in my nomadic ethnographic role as I moved around the hierarchy of doors from pubs to clubs. I was partly trying to build a picture of the door community. Building on Foot-Whyte’s (1943) famous study, it was a sort of ‘door corner society’. Hence, I had a more distant knowledge of some of the door community and a more intimate relationship to others. It was a classic combina- tion of both friend and stranger roles so elegantly summed up by Agar (1980) as ‘the professional stranger’. Prior to the study, I had clubbed in various spaces, with bouncers being a con- tinued source of my sociological curiosity and imagination. This area was part of my biographical and experiential backyard, as my late father Pat Calvey had been a doorman in a Docker’s club in Greenock, Scotland, in his youth. I was intrigued by his stories about this world on the odd occasion that he recounted them. Bouncers are demonized figures of folklore and the standard icons of 125 07_Calvey_Ch_06.indd 125 2/28/2017 10:53:57 AM Covert research masculinity (Calvey, 2000). For me, these mythologized and vilified figures of fear and fascination clearly required de-mystification and critical investigation. The analysis of popular culture, for me, had rightly shifted from the margins to the centre (O’Connor and Wynne, 1996). Similar to Winlow (2001), in his covert study of bouncers in the Northeast of England, I am also ‘a product of the very culture I attempt to describe’ (2001: 5). For Winlow, due to his working-class upbringing, accent, age, bodily image and various biographical socializing experiences, the field was part of his cultural inheritance and not something distant and exotic. Hence, access was compara- tively simple and straightforward. Winlow’s ethnographic study of bouncing formed part of a much wider study of changing masculinities, entrepreneurial criminality, violence and the regulation of the night-time economy. For Winlow, contemporary bouncers usefully represent the changing nature of masculinities in a postmodern era and provide an urban career for some males who can legiti- mately use their bodily capital in certain ways. I received some limited financial support in the form of teaching relief from the Sociology Department at Manchester University, where I was a temporary lecturer at the time. It is important to make clear that I did not receive formal grant funding for the project, although I received ethical approval from the department, hence I was not policy bound. Thus, this small-scale project effectively became self-funding and sustainable. More importantly, I was free to use what I consid- ered to be an innovative methodological strategy of pure covert research. 6.2 Covert passing in a demonized subculture: body capital and interaction rituals Doormen are simultaneously ‘men of honour’ when on your side and ‘heavies’ when not. They are a deeply demonized subculture (Calvey, 2000; Hobbs et al., 2000, 2005, 2007; Monaghan, 2003, 2004, 2006). Bouncers can make or break your night out as the club or pub effectively becomes the bouncer’s monopoly. They have been elegantly described as ‘tuxedo warriors’, which refers to an older dress code, by Cliff Twemlow (1980), in an early gritty practitioner account of the tales of a Mancunion bouncer. I mostly worked with male door staff as at the time, there were fewer females doing door work. The gender composition has changed currently, although not radically, as most door people are male, and there has been more related research on gendering the security gaze (O’Brien, 2009), the gendered door (Hobbs, O’Brien and Westmarland, 2007) and violence and gender (O’Brien et al., 2008). The analytic push was to investigate the everyday world of bouncers in a faith- ful (Bittner, 1973) manner, using thick description (Geertz, 1973) that attempts to 126 07_Calvey_Ch_06.indd 126 2/28/2017 10:53:57 AM A covert case study of bouncers in the night-time economy avoid glosses of their routine practices, practical accomplishments and mundane reasoning (Pollner, 1987; Watson, 2009).
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